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Pickens County Vision 2025 is implementing the Vision Plan presented to county residents in the fall of 2007. A twenty-three (23) member Implementation Team is meeting monthly to guide and oversee the process of implementing the 89 objectives in the plan. The Implementation Team members are diverse in age, gender, race, and location to represent the citizens of the county. The members are assigned to one of the five themes from the plan as their focus and area to work with through implementation. Chair or co-chairs head up each of the five themes to bring community groups, organizations, and individuals together as Vision Partners for the purpose of achieving each of the 89 objectives in the five focus themes. See the Focus Group pages with links on the left of this page for updates on each of the five areas. Since the plan conveys a time line through 2025, the Vision Partners will select the individual objectives in their theme to accomplish year by year. The Vision Partners will meet and report back to the Implementation Team their progress in meeting the objectives on a regular basis. A report will be given by the Implementation Team annually on the progress in reaching the objectives. |
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What is Community Visioning? |
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Community visioning is a process for engaging a large number of citizens in thinking about and planning their community’s future. In doing so, visioning helps create consensus, opens the door to new ideas, and strengthens citizen support for action. Through public involvement, communities identify their purpose, core values, and vision of the future which are then transformed into a manageable and feasible set of community goals and action plan. |
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What is a Vision Partner? |
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A Vision Partner is any organization, business, civic group, government entity, church, individual, etc., that volunteer to collaborate with other community members to implement the Pickens County Vision Plan. |
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New Chairman and Vice Chair Elected |
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A new Chairman has been elected to replace Gerald Sweitzer, who has served as Chair since the Implementation Process began January 2008. Prior to that Sweitzer was Co-Chair of the Steering Committee that created the Vision Plan. The new Chairman is Michael Sheriff, a licensed practicing Architect, who twice served as President of the Spartanburg Section of the South Carolina Chapter of the American Institute of Architects. He is serving his third term on Liberty City Council, and is Mayor Pro Tem. He is a graduate of Leadership Pickens County and served as Chairman of the Leadership Pickens County Board of Regents for 2005-2006. He currently serves on the Pickens County Construction Board of Adjustments and Appeals for Building Codes. Rick Murphy is the new Vice Chairman, and is Regional Education Career Coordinator for the Pendleton Region covering Anderson, Oconee, and Pickens County. He has 30 years experience in education, holding teaching, counseling, and administrative positions in both secondary and post-secondary education. He serves as Chairman of the Pickens County Disabilities and Special Needs Board, and was chair of the City of Pickens Planning Commission. |
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